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academic somewhere; views represent my personal opinion and do not represent any current or past employer or organization.

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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Ah, banks. A $530 dog wheelchair purchase = no problem. A $55 Jansport backpack flagged for suspicious activity. Make it make sense.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ICE is really just openly killing people. The man who shot and killed him is a murderer and needs to go to prison.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NYT Video (shot by the woman in the pink jacket) shows ICE Agent clearly removing his handgun and shooting the unarmed and contained man after the man was trying to protect someone from getting hurt by ICE agents.
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Xena @wiltshirecat1.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Sid the cat who was abandoned in Wolverhampton has been given the best life ever. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sid the cat abandoned in Wolverhampton gets his happy ever after
Sid has a nasal deformity which affects his breathing and now lives with a blind cat in Berkshire.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Time to take a break and log-in to my Vanity Fair subscription . . .
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Yes, Hegseth threw Bradley under the bus. Awkward, since Bradley spent his entire career making sure buses and troops were safe. Remind me again: Who do you think knows more about the Geneva Convention? Decorated, Naval Academy, SEAL, JSOC, Admiral, or "I-read-headlines-once-on television" guy?
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This would have been much better handled had the grad student teacher had a one-on-one, asked for a revision, and provided some coaching on how to meet expectations so that the student could succeed in the assignment and class.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Oof, reading that Chronicle article about the student who got a zero on a paper... the student should not have been marked a zero per the rubric, but the paper did not meet the assignment criteria completely.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/11/2025
Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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How to: Manage Your Digital Footprint
Search for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like addresses, email accounts, usernames, or family members. Each piece of information is often public and not typically seen as harmful. But together these parts of your identity...
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
No. No, no, no, no. NO!
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Apparently, I have over 4 million unread emails in my work inbox. When am I getting that pay raise? 😂
ebeck2@ucmerced.edu
inbox 4294967295
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29/10/2025
One year ago this week, California made history in pushing toward clean, sustainable aviation fuel. The result? Clean fuels are taking flight in the Golden State: ⬆️ Sustainable aviation fuel use up 300% ⬇️ Dirty diesel fuel use down 80%
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29/10/2025
As part of today's historic return of ancestral land in the Sierra Nevada foothills and Central Valley back to the Tule River Tribe, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is helping reintroduce tule elk to the area. It's a critical step in restoring balance to the lands and waters of their ancestors.
Governor Newsom announces the return of 17,030 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian Tribe and the reintroduction of tule elk to the area.Governor Newsom announces the return of 17,030 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian Tribe and the reintroduction of tule elk to the area.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Finally received my formal PSLF eligibility notification. I now have a 30-day wait, and I could not be more excited to have this take place. Wishing the same for all those in PSLF who have been in limbo waiting for their notices.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Folks, people are all up in arms about the $200M ballroom, and 1) it's funded privately, 2) no taxpayer expense. More interested in who's funding it & what other deals are happening. And raising $200M for a ballroom at a time with sky high everything, where else could that money have been directed?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2025
Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It's the trash collection during the peaceful protest that gets me. Portland, hats off. www.youtube.com/shorts/pmjpt...
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Portland Oregon War zone. Reporting live as a volunteer combat journalist. #showmeyourhellhole
YouTube video by Awkwardly Audrey
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thank you, Portland. Thank you.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
All those abandoned cars! No pedestrians, except one brave soul. People didn't even have time to board up the windows.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Any government that uses invasive spyware on its citizens, on visitors, on migrants throttles and disrupts freedom.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
fake news.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
If anything, the anti-vacc rhetoric reminded me to schedule annual vaccinations for me and my family. So, thanks?
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I also see a genuine opportunity for both sides of the aisle to come together to put pressure on the administration to cancel this event.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What a waste of taxpayer money, operational readiness, and ongoing military planning. As a citizen, I would feel much more safe and comfortable knowing that the top brass are in their command posts around the world than coming to DC for a "pep rally". www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...
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Hegseth’s surprise gathering of top military brass is to deliver speech on ‘warrior ethos,’ sources say | CNN Politics
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s surprise gathering of hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia next week is being called so he can describe the administration’s reinvention of the Department ...
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Logs in first time in four months. Logs right back out.
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homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in a grassy field
Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is moving backwards into a green hedge to disappear.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
WaPo realizing that anyone under 50 isn't reading the news anymore: "What if we fed our journalism to the thing everyone is talking to?" www.avclub.com/washington-p...
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The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
War correspondent Pete Hegseth, because nothing says “I understand the stakes” like treating top-secret ops like a forwarded chain email in 2003: “If you don’t send this to five friends, the Navy won’t strike Yemen.”
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Made this out of grocery store flowers.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is the equivalent of "I never heard of racism when I was a kid" (whispers: because it was an all white neighborhood). And, I also support banning petroleum-based food dyes, but not under the rhetoric of this presser.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
There are some moments in television history that have stayed with me: Red Wedding, Purple Wedding, dissolving bathtub from Breaking Bad (still can't get over that one, as in I haven't watched the whole show), but the makeup and acting from the Last of Us this past Sunday . . . devastating.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Never have I been so excited to receive a shipment, then what I'm getting later today--more glazes for my ceramics!
Inventory list: Micro Jade SW-216, Black engobe EG-005, Micro Cerulean SW-217, Micro Pearl SW-214, Nimbus SW-194, Deep Olive Speckle PC-29, Mayco Manganese SW-303, Mayco Light Flux, Ivy SW-193, Rose Quartz SW-198, Lavender Mist SW-196, Speckled Buff Engobe EG-002, Raspberry Mist SW-177, and U.S. Transfer DC975: Flowers 0. Quantity of one ordered for each item listed.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
8. So, I guess, cool--you moved the Turning Point camp and people off campus, and in the process made national news and fueled the right echo chamber that paints the left as scum.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
7. And, for the people who engaged in civic disruption--right on. For those who moved into more violent tactics, that's kind of what the other side can use to fuel its agenda to point fingers back at the protestors.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
6. I am very confused by the officers standing back from the crowd as things begin to heat up. What were the tactics they were using?
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
5. In another video, it does look like a plain clothes officer did intervene to deescalate some potential conflict, while other uniformed officers stood back from the crowd.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
4. It would not surprise me if the Trump administration decided to retract 100s of millions from UC Davis due to what happened.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
3. The lack of police presence (I didn't see any in the video I saw) makes me wonder about response times.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
2. Some of the protestors were violent in not only knocking over items and pushing items away, but in one instance, hitting someone.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1. Some of the protestors were peaceful and engaged in civic disruption (that's likely going to get ignored by media coverage).
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
watching that UC Davis video of protestors getting violent with Turning Point and a few things come to mind:
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Yes, but they wear suits.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So, how many Scaramuccis until Waltz and Hegseth are out? Any bets?
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Well, if they keep inviting the reporters, it really won't matter.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Reporting by Der Spiegel International shows email accounts, passwords of Waltz, Hegseth, and Gabbard is "freely accessible on the internet" www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I cannot imagine what the military personnel who operated, their chain of command, and their families and friends must be thinking and feeling right now. The willful disregard for Mike Waltz and others on the chat to send that information potentially risked lives. Unacceptable.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reporting by Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic shows classified military operation disclosure via a 1-week disappearing group chat on a commercial app, Signal: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If you believe that the American public and the men and women who serve deserve a presidential cabinet that safeguards military operations, I urge you to contact your elected officials to demand congressional inquiry.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
What else has Trump's cabinet put on the non-government approved commerical app, #signal? What other #apps is his cabinent using that potentially risks national security? If the #GOP think the "Houthi PC small group" isn't anything to worry about, then release all signal chats from Trump's cabinet.
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estee beck @esteebeck.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Schumer on Strategy: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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